The great blues guitarist received Lenny from his wife in 1980 as a 26th birthday present, and named it after her. It was one of his favourite guitars, and he used it extensively until his untimely death in 1990. The SRV stickers on the body of this guitar were a trademark of the majority of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitars, a habit he picked up from brother Jimmie who started this trend before him. In 2004 this became the first and only one of his guitars that has ever been released for sale by his estate, to raise money for charity.
It raised $623,500 at auction to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua.

Eric Clapton’s C.F. Martin & Co., circa 1939

Another one of Clapton’s guitars makes the top ten. The reason for this is that he is one of the few renowned guitarists who does actually sell their guitars – usually to raise money for the Crossroads Rehabilitation Centre. There are definitely guitars out there (belonging to Jimmy Page, Van Halen and so on) that could fetch more if they were sold, but they haven’t been put up for sale as yet. This guitar was used by Clapton primarily during 1964, but only rarely after that.It fetched the highest price ever paid for a Gibson when auctioned. at$791,500

Eric Clapton’s 1964 Gibson ES0335 TDC

This guitar was used by Clapton primarily during 1964, but only rarely after that. It fetched the highest price ever paid for a Gibson when auctioned. at $847,500

Blackie – Stratocaster hybrid

In 1970, due to the influence of Jimi Hendrix among others, Eric Clapton decided to make the switch from Gibson guitars to Stratocasters. Clapton bought 6 vintage Strats from a guitar shop in Texas for a hundred dollars each. He gave three away (to George Harrison, Pete Townshend and Steve Winwood) and then assembled the best parts of the remaining three (c. 1956 and 1957) into a single strat, which he christened ‘Blackie’ due to its dark finish. Clapton played Blackie for the first time in January 1973, and continued to do so until it was retired in 1985 due to neck issues. A tribute model was made by Fender to Clapton’s exact specifications.
Blackie was sold at auction in 2004, and became the world’s most expensive guitar at $959,000.

Bob Marley’s Custom made Washburn 22 series Hawk

Classified as a national treasure by the Jamaican government, this guitar is one of only 7 guitars that the reggae icon owned in his lifetime. On the 21st of November, 1971, after a gig in Vancouver, Marley gave the guitar to his guitar tech Gary Carlsen with the words, “Take it because you’ll understand later”. Admirably, Carlsen took this as a sign that he should use the gift he had been given to better the world in some way, and so he set up the charity “Different Journeys, One Destination”, offering the guitar as a prize in a lottery. at $1.2 to 2 million

Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 Stratocaster

Hendrix played this guitar at Woodstock in 1969.From 1970 until 1990 it was in the possession of his drummer Mitch Mitchell, before surfacing in 1990 at the opening of the new Fender Artist Centre complete with cigarette burns on the headstock, and Jimi’s trademark upside down stringing. It sold at Sotheby’s in the same year for $198,000. Rumour has it that Paul Allen (Bill Gates’ right hand man at Microsoft) paid 2 million dollars for this guitar in 1998.There no telling what itcould be worth now.at $2 million